Beta testers had no access to the forums. Only staff (admins only?) before hand. We got to test the new tool Infinity that’s it.
The site isn’t hard to use or navigate. It’s really simple and I’m already finding it faster than HorizonMB. As Cheater showed me when I saw the site, bigger communities are starting to use it like Imgur. It’s slowly taking over vBulletin and other forums. I like it and just started using it today. Give it time, plus you’ll never get a tool like Infinity
Forums should mainly be for discussion anyway, not aesthetics. Honestly this is my first time actually using the forum and I love it cause of the features it has, everything is actually in real time now which is a big plus and the only thing I personally think needs to be added is more sub hubs.
I agree 100%. I loved the previous site style so much it’s the main reason I came back everyday. I’m going to stick around and hopefully it grows on me but it’s hard to think it will.
I swear it’s like I just woke up on some alien planet.
Only about 10 of us had access to the forum before launch and no one even used it then. It is different but a lot of people were complaining that we weren’t changing anything at all. VBulletin is outdated and it was time for a total overhaul. Discourse is a new format that I haven’t seen any other forum software use.
I can’t even log into my account from HMB here, none of my emails work so I have no idea what to do with regards to that.
The forum layout on mobile is AWFUL. It’s literally so difficult to navigate and there’s so much crammed into such a small space. Switching to desktop view did nothing but add more clutter (it doesn’t even look like the desktop site -> http://m.imgur.com/QYEjFVe)
Right I’ll try it tomorrow on a computer if I get to one.
I absolutely hate mobile themes in general for forums. I always use the desktop version for browsing on my phone, which is what I usually use to do so since I’m never really at a computer.
The mobile theme really isn’t much better (http://m.imgur.com/OVLeKFW) it looks nice on threads but that’s about it.
I will need to see what it looks like on PC but like I said I rarely use it for browsing anymore.